The inmates of Mitchellville State Women’s Prison are in for a treat. Iowa’s Department of Corrections recently launched a project that allows them to correspond with their friends and family via email. No, they will not be given Macbooks or BlackBerry devices. The new project only allows the inmates to receive email messages, not send [...]
Posts on ‘January 13th, 2009’
Bomb Threats Sent to Leela Hotels via Email
Explosive devices have been planted in every single Leela Hotel in India. Or so the email says. The bomb threat, which was sent to the management office of Leela Hotel in Mumbai, is claiming that the anonymous senders will blow up each and every Leela Hotel in the country if the owners fail to pay [...]
Archbishop Tutu Involved in Email Scam
Nobody is safe from being victimized by an email scam. Not even Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa. A new fraudulent email claiming to be sent by the archbishop is currently invading email inboxes all over the world. The main objective of the scammers who composed and sent [...]